‘Seized weapons not from military’

The firearms seized by the police last year from suspected Mindanao-based gun suppliers did not come from the military, the Philippine Army said on Thursday, as it wrapped up its investigation on the issue of supposed firearms pilferage within the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Lt. Col. Eugenio Osias 4th, spokesman of the Army’s Nueva Ecija-based 7th Infantry Division (ID), said their investigation found the guns and ammunition confiscated from two gun suppliers of Mindanao-based threat groups came from a “commercial source.”